Welcome to the Hog Blog, a blog chronicling minor-league baseball in the Lehigh Valley. Tom Housenick, The Morning Call's IronPigs beat writer, has been at The Morning Call since 2008. In a previous lifetime, he was at Lackawanna County Stadium in Moosic talking with future Phillies Jimmy Rollins, Pat Burrell, Shane Victorino and Ryan Howard, among many others.
He’ll now be spending his summers in search of who the Phillies are hoping to be the next Chase Utley and Cole Hamels plus any outfielder who catch and hit. What he really hopes to find are the next Mariano Rivera, Todd Helton and Jim Thome --- great human beings who happened to be great at this sport.
He spent the last five years covering Colonial League football, college basketball and high school track & field.

AHHH,
Poor Tracy...He did not get called up so he does nt want to play.
Hey Andy, that attitude will get you far.
Let's look at your strikeouts, your hitting pct with men on base,,,and you cannot hit a cuve ball.AND, the plays you take off playing first...
personally, I would have called him up,,but what do I know..Sounds like an another Mike Cervanak crying..

Posted By: Nicholas | Sep 8, 2010 4:09:21 PM

If you move on Andy, then thanks for the 3 years of good memories. It's obvious you are not in the Phillies plans. Hopefully you will catch on somewhere else and get that well deserved chance to play in the bigs.

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